"An elegant and complex thriller. . . . Harrowingly beautiful." --New
York Times Book Review
"Hugely impressive--ambitious in scope, and skilled in execution."
--Los Angeles Times
"Ranks with the best of current American crime
fiction."--Washington Post
Jo Nesbø, the New York Times bestselling author of The Snowman,
has solidified his spot as one of the most exciting Scandinavian
thriller writers in the crime fiction business. The Redbreast is the
third installment in Nesbø's tough-as-nails series featuring Oslo police
detective Harry Hole.
Detective Harry Hole embarrassed the force, and for his sins he's been
reassigned to mundane surveillance tasks. But while monitoring neo-Nazi
activities in Oslo, Hole is inadvertently drawn into a mystery with deep
roots in Norway's dark past--when members of the nation's government
willingly collaborated with Nazi Germany.
More than sixty years later, this black mark won't wash away, and
disgraced old soldiers who once survived a brutal Russian winter are
being murdered, one by one. Now, with only a stained and guilty
conscience to guide him, an angry, alcoholic, error-prone policeman must
make his way safely past the traps and mirrors of a twisted criminal
mind. For a hideous conspiracy is rapidly taking shape around Hole--and
Norway's darkest hour may still be to come.
